From what I understand typically the courts in Germany are about as amused with the Reichsbürger dolts as the US courts are with "sovereign citizens" who go in ranting about "fringe on the flag" and "admiralty courts" and other such nonsense.
One of the sadder aspects of the US sovereign citizen movement is that there are a bunch of scammers leveraging the concepts from it in order to sell phony "debt relief" and "tax relief" scams to innocent victims. Theory being that asserting "Sovereign Citizen" status will make it so that the courts cannot enforce a judgment against you for payment of a debt or payment of taxes. And for the "low low price of $99.95" or whatever, Joe Scammer will tell you how to file all the paperwork. Of course it's all bogus and when the victims are finally hauled into court in order to get them to pay what they owe, they're sadder but wiser.
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Date: 2020-05-06 03:38 pm (UTC)One of the sadder aspects of the US sovereign citizen movement is that there are a bunch of scammers leveraging the concepts from it in order to sell phony "debt relief" and "tax relief" scams to innocent victims. Theory being that asserting "Sovereign Citizen" status will make it so that the courts cannot enforce a judgment against you for payment of a debt or payment of taxes. And for the "low low price of $99.95" or whatever, Joe Scammer will tell you how to file all the paperwork. Of course it's all bogus and when the victims are finally hauled into court in order to get them to pay what they owe, they're sadder but wiser.